John K. Redd, Jr.

He was a 32 year old merchant at Columbus, GA in 1860. He enlisted as Private, Company G, 2nd Georgia Infantry on 16 April 1861, and was promoted to Sergeant on 15 July 1861. He was a volunteer aide-de-camp to General Semmes by the Seven Days battles in 1862.

From General Semmes Report:

My staff, Lieutenant Briggs, aide-de-camp, and Lieutenants Redd and Cody, volunteer aides, were present during the entire action, and were more exposed, if possible, than any of the troops, being often employed in bearing orders to the different parts of my line and to commanders of other troops in the vicinity, displaying coolness and gallantry of the highest order, and all escaping untouched except Lieutenant Redd, who received a slight wound on the body from a spent bullet.

He was commissioned Captain, Company F, 64th Georgia Infantry on 11 April 1863. He was slightly wounded in the head in action at Olustee, FL on 20 February 1864, and killed in action at the Crater, near Petersburg, VA on 30 July 1864.

Service from Krick.1

Date not known in GA

07/30/1864; near Petersburg, VA; burial in Linwood Cemetery, Columbus, GA